Post #1510153
2025-05-02 10:16 UTC
@LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio An under-appreciated factor in the early adoption of preprints by the physical and mathematical sciences was I believe the introduction of TeX for typesetting the mathematics in preprints. Once scientists realised that they could do their own typesetting the journals lost one of their main selling points.
https://council.science/publications/normalization-preprints/
#Preprints #OpenScience
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@LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl 2025-05-02 10:58
@Luke_Drury Interesting point, Luke, thanks!
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@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social 2025-05-02 11:36
@Luke_Drury @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio maybe Markdown can do the same for other fields? Big fan of MyST for typesetting now.
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@mike@sauropods.win 2025-05-03 10:08
@Luke_Drury @LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio I think it's impossible to overstate the importance of TeX in this. The failure to adopt it is why we in palaeo are still so far behind.